Show Michigan i an Wealthy in Salt Mines 77 niLE LILLE the average render reader knows known leona W that lint Michigan Is marvelously rich along many lines of ot pro production few know that some ome of or the most mORt profitable salt mines In the entire entre world situated In this ono of ot the Great Lakes states In 1003 the tho reports slate Plato that Michigan turned out over Oer C ll 1 COO barrels of ot One line salt Halt and In 1007 1907 halt half a million milon more nUll anti the year before that barrels of or salt nIt were pro hire diced the largest ct record and a tremendous dous addition to the tho Industrial activities of oC the state Tho falling oft off 01 In the Michigan snit salt In Industry Industry Is not due to lack lock of ot demand lack lod of ot capital or lack of ot the raw rW product It was caused by hy the decline In the lum hum lumbering bering baring activity In Michigan lu which affect affected ed Id the flue salt fall mining strongly ns as much ot of the salt II la Is 11 made from tram brine brne which Is It evaporated by ly steam which In turn tur Is n mere waste from Crom the tremendous lumber milling Industry of oC the commonwealth The had bad times affected the lumber regions re regions gions tremendously I ns as a construction during 1009 up until the mouth of or November was not more than CO GO per cent cent o 0 oc the records marls mado In any ono of oC the three preceding pr 12 1 months So tho the steam util utilized lied Irell In evaporating tho rho salt was not on 00 hand as ns u at I waste product and the tho Bait works showed a n correspondingly smaller output output In a n doglo county of ot Michigan O people work wort regularly ID In getting the salt brine up a n thousand feet reet below tho rho surface of o tho ground Soda ash oSh useful In tho the manufacture of or glass and nud soap Is la another of ot the prod products pro products of oC brine mines The workings of these peculiar mines are to the average retailer minder n It I seems unusual 1 for tor minor miners to go a thousand feet tet under underground underground underground ground to get ge salt snit writer and ond to have bavo havethe the products of oC a n mine mile pumped up nod then carried oft off oI In enormous pipe lines Jnes to the tho factories where tho rho evaporation takes lakes tales place Yet this Is It the methyl method of or these mines mIne which sac arc mines of or brine and ond not nol of or salt saltus saltus us lS one sees seeR It In lu commerce These supplies of or wilt stilt brine are arc of ot such uch vast extent that untold ages a must mURt elapse according to ex ox expert e pert estimates before Core there Is Lc L any al danger of ur extinction of ot the salt Industries of or Michigan |